97 W. Va. 587 - Wise v. Hinegardner’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1975
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mansfield v. Shelton · 88 W. Va. 187 - Woodbridge v. Woodbridge · Stout v. Clifford · 95 W. Va. 420 - National Surety Co. v. Jarrett · Martin v. Martin
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That all parts of a will are to be construed in relation to each other, and so as, if possible, to form one consistent whole; but where several parts are absolutely irreconcilable, the latter must prevail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weiss v. Soto
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.